Flick Harrison
Flick Harrison has been working as an activist & artist in the field for over 10 years. His work includes documentary film, installation, theatre, and education. He started his work as a videographer on the national CBC series Road Movies and went on to work with 536 Arts Collective, Western Theatre Conspiracy, Dancers Dancing, Leaky Heaven Circus, DanceArts Vancouver, Headlines Theatre, and Impudence Cultural Productions. He’s shot videos for: R.E.M., Battlestar Gallactica, Bruce Sweeney, Nettie Wild, Reg Harkema, David Vaisbord, James Dunnison, and many others.
He studied at Z Magazine’s Z Media Institute as part of the Canada-Council funded interactive DVD project Marie Tyrell, based on a 1974 short story by D.M. Fraser, starring Tom Scholte (Live Bait, Dirty) and Susan Box (of punk band July 4th Toilet), and Flick’s smash-and-grab video “President of the Apes” is lurking around the U.K. in a pedal-powered cinema and at Roadance, the Sundance-baiting cube-van outlaw film fest.
Flick’s rabble-rousing websites Stockwell Dork and Clarkson the Terrible have stirred national attention, the former getting thousands of hits a day after CBC TV coverage during Election 2000. Flick’s videos have shown alongside work by Nick Zedd, Negativland, Seth Tobocman, Mike Holboom, Oliver Hockenhull, Lincoln Clarkes, Christine Taylor, Lola Lush, Hugh Phukovsky, Ivan Cyote, and others.
Born in London, Ontario, the son of an air force gynecologist and a psych nurse, the Moose Jaw Times once called Harrison a “modern-day Jack Kerouac.” He teaches digital filmmaking to kids at Arts Umbrella and edited the Film and Video section of Broken Pencil, a zine / indie-culture print mag based in Toronto. As a journalist/ host he’s interviewed Richard Linklater, Guy Maddin, the Royal Art Lodge, Vincenzo Nataly, and many other Canadian and world artists. His writing has been published in: Capsule magazine, Rain, Film Threat, Play, the Ottawa Citizen, the Montreal Gazette, and Adbusters. One of his newest projects is planning youth media training programs in places such as: Uganda, Haiti and Rwanda.
Grants and Awards include:
Nov 2004 – Best Narrative Film – Marie Tyrell – Northwest Film and Video Fest
Nov 2004 – Nominee – Borsos Award – Whistler Film Festival – Better off in Bed
Jul 2002 – Canada Council Film and Video – Research and Creation Grant
May 2001 – “Rockaction” Filmmaking Commission from the Blinding Light Cinema
August 2000 – Canada Council – Film and Video – Travel Grant
http://www.flickharrison.com/
Laura Barron
Laura Barron is hailed as “one of the finest flutists of her generation” (Flute Network). She made her solo debut at age 17 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has given recitals and taught master classes from New Zealand to the Yukon, premiered over 50 works with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, and given several performances at Carnegie Hall. In her early career, she was often a featured soloist with the Brandenburg Ensemble in Lincoln Center and Kennedy Center. Additionally, she served as principal flute of the American Sinfonietta Orchestra, and performed with the Minnesota and Vancouver Symphonies. She has held faculty positions at the University of Oregon, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Northern Arizona University.
In 2007, she and her husband Geoff Cross spent an illuminating year traveling to five continents. This experience included European recitals, French courses in Morocco, Dalai Lama teachings in India, and volunteer work in the Bolivian jungle. This transformative time continues to inform her artistic work.
Laura has integrated her passion for art and activism through: her work as a band coach at Portland Girls Rock Camp, as a yoga instructor at Alouette Correctional Centre for Women, a therapeutic musician at Vancouver’s Cottage Hospice and in a variety of inter-disciplinary collaborations through her non-profit Instruments of Change. She is currently completing her first novel, Mosquito Cronicles.
http://forbiddenflutes.com/index.html
Instruments of Change
“Music elevates, inspires, awakens, and moves us. Art has the transformative power to open hearts and minds. Life touches each of us in personal ways. A certain cause may speak to us so loudly that we are compelled to action. Our organization can answer this call.”
Instruments of Change uses the arts as an educational tool to empower people to become instruments of transformative change in their own lives. Through community-based art projects, which serve: schools, hospices, shelters, community centres and prisons, the organization offers diverse communities the opportunity to make and experience music & art. In turn, Instruments of Change helps people to find their authentic voice.
http://forbiddenflutes.com/instrumentsOfChange.html
Something Collective
Something Collective is comprised of 5 like-minded artists & activists with a shared vision to effect social change through art. This group includes: Flick Harrison (media arts), Natalie Gan (dance), Maggie Winston (puppetry, theatre), Juliana Bedoya (sculpture, performance installation), and Laura Barron (flutist, yogi, writer). They met in 2010, in Judith Marcuse’s SFU course Exploring Arts for Social Change. This shared experience inspired their artistic collaboration. In the past they have addressed issues of homelessness, gentrification, sustainability and consumerism. Something Collective has been chosen for the Incubator Residency (a three-year artist residency at the Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre that provides free studio space for artists in exchange for community-based arts engagement). Currently, the team is developing a variety of future projects intended to serve Vancouver communities.
http://somethingcollective.ca/
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